ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,775, issued on April 8, was assigned to PLUME DESIGN INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Wi-Fi network failover to cellular connection with throttling of traffic" was invented by Ali Wahid (Atlanta), Yoseph Malkin (San Jose, Calif.), Manikanden Balakrishnan (San Mateo, Calif.) and William J. McFarland (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for Wi-Fi network failover to cellular connection with throttling of traffic include detecting an outage on wired connections for any of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks; determining the any of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks have switched to a cellular connection as a fai...